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Capacities. Sunlit desk of ideas.

  • Productivity
  • Light theme
  • 14 colors
  • 3 typefaces

Capacities is a white knowledge-work canvas animated by small, paper-like object cards, faint pastel category tints, and a warm yellow halo behind the opening statement. Nearly black type carries the page; color stays peripheral in the announcement strip, floating note labels, tiny icon tiles, and lightly tinted product surfaces. Large Inter display headlines use tight negative tracking and stacked line breaks, while the remaining interface stays compact in system sans typography, thin warm-gray rules, restrained shadows, and generously rounded cards.

Screenshot of Capacities
Captured from capacities.io on October 11, 2026

Capacities design system

Capacities

Accent7

  • Warm-tinted object tiles and selected audience-filter surfaces

  • Announcement-strip fill, soft decorative highlights, and the warm hero atmosphere

  • Borders around warm audience pills and promotional surfaces

  • Orange text accent for links, tags, and emphasized short phrases

  • Pale blue object-card fills and background accents

  • Borders for blue-tinted note objects

  • Borders for lilac-tinted note objects

Neutrals7

  • Display headlines, logo marks, icons, and filled conversion buttons; the near-black creates the system's decisive contrast against Paper White

  • Navigation labels, links, and secondary dark interface text

  • Body copy, explanatory text, and secondary content

  • Captions, trust statements, quiet metadata, and low-emphasis links

  • Visible card outlines and quiet structural borders

  • Hairline card borders, dividers, and pale neutral fills

  • Page backgrounds, card surfaces, inverted text, and light navigation

Try a pairing

Pick any two colors from the palette to check whether text stays readable on top.

Aa

Ink on Butter Paper

16.74 : 1 contrast

Background
Text
  • Body textPasses AA 4.5
  • Large textPasses AA 3
  • StrictPasses AAA 7

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